Frances Fuller , LCSW

Frances Fuller is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, and the fallout of major life changes. She supports people facing compassion fatigue, grief, mood struggles, and concerns tied to identity such as LGBT and multicultural issues. Frances practices in New Mexico and has seven years of professional experience as an LCSW. Her sessions are conversational and practical. She focuses on creating a calm space where people can talk about tough feelings without judgment. Frances encourages small, clear steps that can make daily life feel more manageable. She blends several approaches to suit each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-based ideas help people understand how past relationships shape current reactions. Narrative work helps clients reframe life stories that feel stuck. Frances also offers strategies for specific life situations like postpartum struggles, fertility and adoption concerns, workplace stress, and coping with prejudice or discrimination. She addresses trauma and uses EMDR as one tool among others for processing distressing memories. People report practical tools and clearer thinking as common outcomes from her work. Frances aims to help clients build skills they can use between sessions. She invites those ready to take a first step to try a straightforward matching and scheduling process.

How Frances uses therapy approaches online

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships influence present-day reactions and helps people create more dependable ways of relating. This approach can be useful for concerns like relationship anxiety, parenting struggles, and patterns that feel stuck.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing practical behavior changes. It often helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and day-to-day coping strategies.

EMDR is used as a method to process distressing memories that continue to cause strong reactions. When appropriate, it is one tool Frances may integrate with other approaches to address trauma and abuse.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Frances will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan based on how things are going.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick coping prompts, or keeping momentum between longer sessions.